Yesterday I wrote and posted an article called "What can happen if you stick to the one thing" in which I talk about all the great things that could happen if, instead of quitting, you would make an extra effort to stick to something for enough time to become good and proficient.
However, although sticking to one thing for a long time can help people become better and better at a skill, up until the point where they can even work in a field that requires their newly acquired abilities, quitting can also be a good thing.
You see, I sometimes sit around in the dark and I try to imagine what I could've become if I decided to not give up on any of the things that I tried and learned so far. I could've been a graphic designer, a web developer, a writer, an environment artist, and a few other things. And sometimes I regret not being any of those things.
But at the same time, the fact that I quit each activity was the reason for starting to be interested in new ones, which ultimately led me to me learning more and more things, which gave me enough knowledge to work in different areas whenever needed.
If I wouldn't have quit on drawing I might've never started working in Photoshop and as a graphic designer.
If I wouldn't have quit graphic design I might've never started to learn to build websites.
If I wouldn't have quit web development, I wouldn't have started to write.
If I wouldn't have quit writing, I wouldn't have started to do 3D modelling.
And if I wouldn't have quit 3D modelling, I wouldn't have picked up writing again, to get where I am now.
Each time I chose to quit doing something, I also chose to pick up another skill and to learn enough about it to be able to work on different projects.
Sure, I didn't become an expert in any of those fields and with either skill, but that didn't matter to me and it still doesn't. I can still work in Photoshop and do quite a lot of things with images, I can still build and edit basic websites, I can still do quite a lot in Blender and create a lot of things, and I can still write, which is my main secondary activity at the moment, my main one being my job.
Not only did I become good at multiple things, but I also learned more about myself and about the way I work. I learned what bores me and what excites me, what type of projects I love to work on and what type of projects I absolutely hate and, in the end, I learned what type of things I like to do and what type of things I don't like to do.
Quitting was bad if you think that life should be all about learning one thing and doing it for the rest of your life.
But for people who are generalists, like I am, quitting can be a good thing, and it can help you to both learn a lot of new things and have a lot of fun working on random projects as well.
